fiemap: Add new extent flag FIEMAP_EXTENT_SHARED
authorSunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Thu, 3 Dec 2009 20:46:51 +0000 (12:46 -0800)
committerJoel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:55:57 +0000 (20:55 -0800)
Some filesystems may allow multiple files to point to a particular
extent.  This patch adds flag FIEMAP_EXTENT_SHARED to denote extents
that are shared with other inodes.

Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
include/linux/fiemap.h

index 934e22d..d830747 100644 (file)
@@ -62,5 +62,7 @@ struct fiemap {
 #define FIEMAP_EXTENT_MERGED           0x00001000 /* File does not natively
                                                    * support extents. Result
                                                    * merged for efficiency. */
+#define FIEMAP_EXTENT_SHARED           0x00002000 /* Space shared with other
+                                                   * files. */
 
 #endif /* _LINUX_FIEMAP_H */